Simplifying the infrastructure reduces management overhead and complexity, making the total cost of ownership lower and improving ROI. Applying data center management procedures to centralized storage management brings additional benefits: high availability and performance. Creating network home directories and shares provides a highly reliable and consistent backup strategy for users, and simplifies the user life-cycle management as each employee enters and exits a company or moves to another department.
Capacity on demand becomes viable with the centralized storage-sharing model, eliminating the hidden costs associated with unmanaged storage and improving IT service levels. Before Consolidation Click to enlarge. Migrating from legacy NT file servers and consolidating data to a new storage architecture takes considerable planning, and reconfiguration impacts users and applications. Corporate-wide Windows consolidation efforts could take a few years to complete.
Unlike one-to-one upgrades, consolidations are many-to-few upgrades that typically involve restructuring the Windows domain security. When upgrading from NT 4. Moving user and group accounts affect the permissions on resources originally granted to the source account, and references to moved accounts must be updated on all ACLs on resources across the entire network.
In addition to migrating data and associated security settings from the source servers to the destination servers, users and applications need to be switched from accessing the current environment to the new environment.
Network shares accessed by drive mapped letters and UNC paths must be updated. After Consolidation Click to enlarge. As enterprises move from legacy Windows clients to Active Directory, many IT organizations choose to implement domain-based DFS to eliminate the need to reconfigure clients whenever share locations change. Microsoft recently enhanced DFS to remove the barrier to adoption, allowing clients to benefit from location transparency without converting the existing UNC namespace to the new DFS namespace.
This enhancement greatly reduces the pain of migrating to the DFS namespace and facilitates file server consolidation. Introducing new layers of infrastructure to support future requirements such as Active Directory and DFS , while simplifying the existing infrastructure through consolidation have far-reaching implications. We deliver a highly available Serverless Printing Infrastructure using a centrally managed Direct IP printing platform.
We use cookies and similar technologies. By continuing on the site, you agree to our privacy and cookie policy. October 17, Serverless printing is just one quick demo away. Schedule Now. PrinterLogic Engineering. Got It. Global HQ S. To permit clients to continue to resolve the names of the print servers that you want to remove during the consolidation, follow these steps:. Back up all print queues and print shares from the servers that you want to consolidate, and then restore the print queues and print shares to the server that will handle the merged printing load.
To do this, you can use a utility such as Microsoft Print Migrator. Take the print servers that you want to remove offline, remove their associated resource records from DNS, and remove their associated accounts in the Active Directory. When you create an alias record, you must specify the target host. Select as the target host the server that you restored the print queues to in step 1. To do this, follow these steps:. In the Alias name uses parent domain if left blank box, type the alias name.
The alias name must match the name of the print server that you removed. In the Fully qualified domain name FQDN for target host box, type the fully qualified domain name of the print server that you want to consolidate the print queues to.
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